Fula
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9.3
- noun
- Fula traders in Sierra Leone were hosted along the trade routes in local households, most often with an influential family.
- Fula refugees
- Fula man
- Fula trader
Examples
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Aminata is trained as a nurse and claimed to have delivered most of the babies in the Fula community.
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Yaye had followed certain Fula norms: her first marriage was to her cousin and was sanctioned by her family and the religious authorities.
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You will have a Fula person who is different from the child of a Fula mother and father.
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Nonetheless, she was clearly identified by the fieldworkers as a Fula during the survey, and her sister Jeneba's family was well-respected in the camp.
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Mobile cattle-herding Fula live all over Bafodea, and settled Mandingo farming and cattle-raising communities exist.
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I asked my research assistants, all Fula refugees themselves, to articulate the difference between a sanctioned, proper relationship and a bulgur marriage.
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For Fula refugees in particular, their social landscape included kin relations that extended from Sierra Leone to Guinea pre-war.
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Traditionally, Fula consider neither premarital sex nor dating as precursors to marriage, as the resulting union would be impure before Allah.
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Many Fula people have migrated to urban areas while still maintaining their cultural traditions.
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The Fula community takes pride in their rich history of cattle herding and nomadic lifestyle.
Synonyms
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7.5
A person from a West African people who herds cattle and moves from place to place
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9.9
A person from a West African people who herds cattle and often moves with them
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9.9
A person from the Fulani group in West Africa
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9.9
A person from a nomadic West African group who herds cattle and is usually Muslim
A nomadic Muslim people in West Africa who herd cattle
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fula comes from the name the people call themselves, Fulɓe, which means 'people' in their own language. Because these people are well known as cattle herders who often move with their animals, Fula now names that pastoral, often nomadic community.